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Viaggio in Italia, Journey to Italy ( Italy 1954 )

Color: Fiction, NB, 97’

Direction: Roberto Rossellini

Screenplay: Vitaliano Brancati

Director of Photography: Enzo Serafin A.I.C

Music: Renzo Rossellini

Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti

Cast: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer, Jackie Frost, Paul Muller, Leslie Daniels

Production: Italia Film

Synopsis

An English couple who have gone to Italy.There’s a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; he idles on Capri, flirting with women but drawing back from adultery; she tours the museums, immersing herself in the Neapolitan fascination with the dead.; with her, he’s sarcastic; with him, she’s critical. A passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.

Réalisateur

Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) is a director of cinema and television, born in Rome. One of the most important in the neorealist Italian cinema, movement formed around him and his films “Rome, an open City” (Roma, città aperta, 1945) and Païsa (Paisà, 1946). In 1944, Rossellini founded clandestinely in Rome, Cinema Workers Union in the National Committee of Liberation. When the Fascist regime ended in 1943, Rossellini was already working on Rome, an open City (Roma città aperta). Released in 1945, the film is a success, the Grand Prix at Cannes 1946.